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Colin Marshall's essay-reviews of books, new and old, about cities the world over
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Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
Why doesn't North America have a London or Paris? An architect-critic explains
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Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
The late Slouching Towards Bethlehem author reports from less a "wicked pastel boomtown" than a bitter and paranoid tropical fever dream
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Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
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In the Los Angeles Review of Books: Tokyo Junkie (Robert Whiting, 2021)
My latest piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books is on Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball, a memoir by American…
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Mar 28
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A. N. Wilson, London: A History (2004)
London is a world city. Los Angeles, where I used to live, is less a world city than, as I once saw a banner at the airport call it, a "city that's a…
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Mar 16
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A. N. Wilson, London: A History (2004)
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Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
I moved from Los Angeles to Seoul a bit over six years ago, and it wouldn't be much of an exaggeration to say I did so because Seoul has the better…
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Feb 22
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Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
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Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View of the City (1999)
Donald Richie closes his most personal book on Tokyo by quoting from his own diary. The entry dates from the summer of 1978, more than twenty years…
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Feb 1
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Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View of the City (1999)
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Shawn Micallef, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017)
I've just returned from a few weeks in Toronto, a city with which I find myself in a not-quite-expected relationship. It started seven years ago, when a…
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Nov 21, 2021
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Shawn Micallef, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017)
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On Archinect: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham, 1971)
Even though I moved to Los Angeles 40 years after the publication of Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the book still…
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Oct 28, 2021
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On Archinect: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham, 1971)
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